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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 4 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• ability:
    1. I. Power:
      1. 1. pŏtestas, pŏtentĭa, făcultas: v. power, opportunity.
      2. 2. ŏpis, ŏpem, ŏpe f. (no nom. sing.): to strive with one's utmost ab., summa ope niti, Sall.: the contest might seem scarcely within human ab., vix humanae opis videri pugna poterat, Liv. Phr.: to the best or utmost of one's ab., pro (sua) parte, Cic.: Ov.: pro parte virili, Cic.: Liv.: Ov.: pro virili portione, Tac.
    2. II. Mental capacity: ingĕnĭum: a man of very vigorous ab., vir acerrimo ing., Cic.: to improve one's a.s, ing. acuere, Cic.: to excel in ab., ingenio abundare, valere, florere, plenum esse, Cic. Join: ingenium et industria, Cic. animi et ingenii motus, Cic.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• ABILITY
  • power, potentia (absolute power): potestas (power derived from legal authority): copia (possibility of doing anything with convenience): facultas (capacity; possibility subjectively).
  • Mental power, ingenium (connate mental power, talents, genius): sollertia (menta. dexterity, practical genius): docilitas (power of learning, of improving): ingenu facultas (talent for a particular pur suit, not talents coliectively, which is ingenium): facultas with genitive (power to do anything, e.g., to speak, dicendi). I do not give him credit for ability to accomplish something, aliquem aliquid efficere non posse duco (after Nep., Alcib., 7, 2).
  • Abilities, mental powers collectively; ingenium, facultates (Cic., de Invent., 1, 27, quite at the end); animi vis, virtus, hominis sollertia. To cultivate one’s abilities, animum mentemque excolere: to be a person of considerable abilities, ingeniosum esse, ingenio abundare.
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